International Institute of Human Rights
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The International Institute of Human Rights or Institut international des droits de l'homme (IIDH) is an association under French local law having its seat in Strasbourg, France, composed of approximately 300 members (individual and collective) worldwide, universities, researchers and practitioners of human rights.
The IIDH was founded by René Cassin who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. René Cassin consecrated the prize money to the creation of an International institute of human rights in Strasbourg.
[edit] See also
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- European Convention on Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- Three generations of human rights
- CCJO René Cassin
